NP - Jürgen Habermas Speaks!

[David Morris]

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jul/16/merkel-gambling-away-germanys-reputation-over-greece-says-habermas?CMP=share_btn_fb

Habermas, widely considered one of the most influential contemporary
European intellectuals, said that by threatening Greece
<http://www.theguardian.com/world/greece> with an exit from the eurozone
over the course of the negotiations, Germany had “unashamedly revealed
itself as Europe’s chief disciplinarian and for the first time openly made
a claim for German hegemony in Europe.”

The outcome of the negotiations between Greece and the other eurozone
member states, he said, did “not make sense in economic terms because of
the toxic mixture of necessary structural reforms of state and economy with
further neoliberal impositions that will completely discourage an exhausted
Greek population and kill any impetus to growth.”

Habermas added: “Forcing the Greek government to agree to an economically
questionable, predominantly symbolic privatisation fund cannot be
understood as anything other an act of punishment against a leftwing
government.”
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